Lunaediesophobia

Quite a mouthful isn't it? Lunaediesophobia - the fear of Mondays.

Why does Monday always seem to get the bad rap?

I think it is not so much Monday as it seems to be a phobia towards facing tomorrow...a new day, a new week. I think most of us live in a world where we are controlled by our situations, our emotions, other people in charge not letting us feel a normalcy about our lives!

I am thinking of that old song, "Rainy Days and Mondays" the tag line in the chorus is "Rainy days and Mondays always get me down". It's as if we are all going around singing Barry Manilow songs where there is a dirge like quality to the music and the lyrics but always the big drum ending with a glimmer of hope.

Did you know that have the ability to do something about it? Yes you do! I believe it is a battle that takes place in the mind. Almost all emotional issues, responses, the things we like and dislike even hate begins in our thinking, our attitude. Formed by many things from our past, it can be reformed.

Paul says in Romans 12:1, 2
With eyes wide open to the mercies of God, I beg you, my brothers, as an act of intelligent worship, to give him your bodies, as a living sacrifice, consecrated to him and acceptable by him. Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity. (J.B. Philips)

Chuck Swindoll says it best:

THE IMPORTANCE OF ATTITUDE
by Charles R. Swindoll

Philippians 2:3-5

This may shock you, but I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me, or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. The attitude I choose keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there’s no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

Yet we must admit that we spend more of our time concentrating and fretting over the things that can’t be changed than we do giving attention to the one that we can change, our choice of attitude. Stop and think about some of the things that suck up our attention and energy, all of them inescapable: the weather, the wind, people’s action and criticisms, who won or lost the game, delays at airports or waiting rooms, x-ray results, gas and food costs.

Quit wasting energy fighting the inescapable and turn your energy to keeping the right attitude. Those things we can’t do anything about shouldn’t even come up in our minds; the alternative is ulcers, cancer, sourness, depression.

Let’s choose each day and every day to keep an attitude of faith and joy and belief and compassion.

Take charge of your own mind!

 

So what are you going to do? Are you going to mope, whine, and cry about that which you cannot change...or are you going to be the change for your life and throw off the shackles of lunaediesophobia